Lullaby

Susan Else

19H x 11W x 15D inches

2020

USA

ARTIST STATEMENT

My work often conflates contradictory ideas and impulses into a single image. Bones are a powerful symbol that evokes human mortality as well as human history and ancestry. In Heirlooms, a new series of domestic objects made of cloth-covered bones, I examine daily life in the context of human fragility — as well as human continuity over generations. How do objects passed down in families embody the people who came before us?

MATERIALS

Cloth, thread, batting, armature materials

TECHNIQUES

Machine collage, machine quilting, hand assembly over armature